---
title: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police"
url: "https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/royal-canadian-mounted-police"
description: "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is Canada's national police force, working at the municipal, provincial and territorial, federal and international levels."
site: "Canada Service Map"
author: "Mahmoud Halat"
publisher: "Space & Story"
updated: "2026-10-14"
licence: "Built entirely from public data: open data and official government pages. Each record keeps the licence of its source, listed at https://canadaservicemap.ca/data."
---
# Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Government of Canada · Agencies

Compiled by Mahmoud Halat, updated 14 October 2026. Not a government website. The official page always has the final word.

## About

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is Canada's national police force, working at the municipal, provincial and territorial, federal and international levels. Its mandate includes preventing and investigating crime, maintaining peace and order, enforcing laws, and contributing to national security.

Source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## Facts

- Jurisdiction: Government of Canada
- Layer: Agencies
- Class: Departmental Agencies
- Portfolio: [Public Safety Canada](https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/public-safety-canada)
- Wikidata: [Q335175](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q335175)

## Official website

- [rcmp-grc.gc.ca](https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca)

## Services it delivers

- [Get a firearms licence (PAL)](https://canadaservicemap.ca/services/firearms-licence)
- [Report a scam or fraud](https://canadaservicemap.ca/services/report-fraud)

## Places on record

Operator on record for 692 places, from open data, by type. Operators are matched from the source records and may be approximate.

- RCMP detachments: 692

## Sources

- Description source: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat)](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.
- Record from: [GC InfoBase, Inventory of Federal Organizations and Interests](https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a35cf382-690c-4221-a971-cf0fd189a46f). Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada.

## More

- [View it in the explorer](https://canadaservicemap.ca/explore?sel=ifoi:295), with the sources of its record.
- [Data and sources](https://canadaservicemap.ca/data): every record keeps the licence of its source.

## Cite this page

Canada Service Map, "Royal Canadian Mounted Police", updated 14 October 2026, https://canadaservicemap.ca/bodies/royal-canadian-mounted-police